English 2 Final
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- Refers to a name or a group of people or things?
- Collective noun
- Who are the 2 characters in a story?
- main character, minor characters
- What are the 5 steps to reading poetry?
- read a poem more than once, keep a dictionary on hand and use it, read so that you hear the sounds of the words in your mind, pay careful attention to what the poem is saying, practice reading poems aloud
- Names an idea, quality, or characteristic?
- Abstract noun
- the subject appears after the verb or between the words that make up the verb phrase
- inverted subject positions
- Indefinite Pronouns, Singular:
- another, anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, much, neither, nobody, no one, nothing, one, somebody, someone, something
- consists of a preposition, its object, and any modifiers of that object
- Prepositional Phrase
- Adverbs used to express a relationship between independant clauses?
- Conjunctive Adverbs
- a command, request or direction, usually ends with a period, but if it is a strong command, it can end with exclamation point
- imperative sent.
- General name for a person, place, or thing?
- Common noun
- examples of compound prepositions:
- under, next to, across, beside
- _____ article refers to unspecified people, places, or things
- indefinite article
- What are some major genres?
- progress, love/romance, identity, history, discovery, heroes
- THIS verb links a word in the predicate to the subject
- Linking Verb
- _____ ______ consists of an infinitive plus its modifiers and compliments?
- Infinitive Phrase
- ____ _______ follows a linking verb and describes or renames the subject
- Sudject Compliment
- "reflects" or represents the subject of the sentence or clause in which it appears?
- Reflexive Pronoun
- Predicate Nominative are _____ and _______ that rename, identify, or define a subject
- nouns, pronouns
- ______ and ______ uses this to compare 2 diff. things
- compare and contrast
- corrects 2 words or group of words
- conjunctions
- THIS is a work of nonfiction that is based on the writers memory of key events and people in his or her life?
- Memoir
- Names an idea, place, or thing
- Singular noun
- ______ article refers to specific people, places, or things
- Definite article
- Word pairs that join words or groups of words
- Correlative Conjunction
- A specific name for a noun
- Proper noun
- This type of poem has poetic lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter
- blank verse
- THIS modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb
- Adverbs
- What are the 3 questions you ask in poetry?
- Who is the Speaker?, What is the setting?, What is the purpose?
- A noun or pronoun that identifies or renames another noun or pronoun, its made up of an appositive plus its modifiers?
- appostives and aposite phrases
- invert the sentence: An 800 lbs pumpkin grew in his garden
- In his garden grew an 800 lbs pumpkin.
- shows relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence
- preposition
- A ______ ________ provides information that is needed to identify the proceeding noun or pronoun?
- Essential Appossitive
- A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition, characterized by a particular style, form, or context
- Genre
- Asks a question, always ends with a question mark.
- interrogative sent.
- ______ ________ consists of a participle plus modifiers and compliments
- Participle Phrase
- expresses strong feeling, ends with an exclamation point
- exclamatory sent.
- THIS is a group of related words that does not have a subject or a predicate, it functions as a single part of speech?
- Phrase
- A word or phrase that expresses a meaning?
- Interjections
- Different elements of poetry?
- verse, endstop, stanza, blank verse, free verse, epic
- Formed when two nouns are written as a single word?
- Compound noun
- What are the 3 types of conjunctions?
- Coordinating, Subordinating, Correlative
- 3 Types of Verbs?
- Action, Linking, Auxilerary
- Figure of speech that compar two dissimilar objects not using "like" or "as"
- metaphor
- This type of poem is writing in which words are arranged in a thythmic pattern?
- Verse Poem
- THIS is a helping verb, 2 verbs combined to create verb phrases
- auxilerary verb
- What is theme?
- central idea or message in a work of lit.
- What are some comparing signal words?
- some, just as, still, always
- ______ ________ are formed by adding -self, or -selves
- reflexive pronoun
- Predicate adjectives describe the _____ and the _____
- subject, predicate
- A word or group of words that follows a direct object and renames or describes that subject.
- Objective Compliments
- These adjectives are capitalized and often end in n, an, ian, ese, ish, etc.
- proper adjectives
- example of what?: UNDER THE BED we found dust bunnies.
- Prepositional Phrase
- What is the subject of an imperative sentence?
- (you) it's understood
- Verb form that functions as an adjective, modify nouns or pronouns, either past, or present
- Participles
- What are compounds in grammar?
- compound sub, compound verb
- THIS verb expresses action
- Action verb
- Example of Coordinating Conjunctions?
- for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so (FANBOYS)
- Verb form, usually beginning with the word to, that can act as a noun, an adj. or an adverb
- Infinitives
- THIS explains a particular subject with the purpose of helping the reader understand the subject more thoroughly.
- Expository Essay
- examples of proper adjectives?
- American, Shakesphere, Jamaican, etc.
- Pronouns that introduce a noun clause or adjective
- relative pronoun
- Prepositions that consist of more than one word
- compound preposition
- A ______ ________ is made up of two or more simple subjects that share a verb
- compound subject
- Names an object that you can touch, taste, hear, or smell?
- Concrete noun
- A ______ is a verb from that acts as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb
- verbal
- A figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as"
- Simile
- What are different examples of poetry without strict formal patterns?
- Limricks, Acrostics, Sonnet
- What does a Prep. Phrase consist of?
- prep. its object, the modifiers of the object
- the most common adjective
- articles
- This type of poem is an extended narrative poem recounting actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes?
- epic poem
- What are some clues in poetry?
- Look at the title, point of view, dialogue
- THe words "___" and "____" never come before an indirect object?
- to, for
- THIS is a writers use of hints or clues to indicate events that will occur later in a narrative
- Forshadowing
- What are the 4 basic parts of a story?
- Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action
- Names more than one idea, person, place, or thing?
- Plural noun
- What type poem form?: ______ defined as a short verse composition, so contructed that the initial letters of the lines, are taken consecutively from words
- Acrostic Poem
- What are forms of figurative language?
- simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idiom, and sensory language
- Introduce subordinating clauses and join with independent clauses
- Subordinating Conjunction
- They connect words or groups of words of equal importance in a sentence.
- Coordinating Conjunction
- What do direct objecs answer?
- to what? to whom?
- _______ _______ are made up of two or more verbso or verb phrases that are joined by a conj., or connecting word and have the same subject
- Compound Verb
- Pronouns that point out specific people, places, things, or ideas
- Demonstrative
- What are the 4 types of views?
- 1st person, third person, third person omniscient, third person limited
- What do Adverbs answeR?
- where?, when?, how?, to what extent?
- PLural indefinite pronuns:
- Both, few, many, several
- the implied meanings that we associate with a word?
- Connotation
- This type of poem doesnt have any set of pattern, doesn't rhyme, and there is not a definite beat or rhythm?
- free verse
- Pronouns that refer to people, places, things, or ideas that are not specified
- Indefinite
- Singular or Plural Pronouns:
- all, any, more, most, non, and some
- What are 4 types of compliments?
- sub. compliments, direct objects, indirect objects, objective compliments
- What are teh 4 questions that Adj. answer?
- What kind?, Which one?, How many?, How much?
- What are 3 basic types of verbals?
- Participles, Gerunds, and Infinitives
- Example of what? : "During the 1930s, the jitterbug became popular
- predicate adj.
- The dictionary def. or the actual meaning of the world?
- Denotation
- Verb ending in -ing and functions as a noun
- Gerund
- What are the "Be" verbs
- is, am, was, were, been, being
- what are the 2 types of articles?
- indefinite, and definite
- a noun that shows ownership or a relationship
- possessive noun
- A word or group of words that names the reciever of the action of an action verb?
- Direct Object
- used in place of a noun
- pronoun
- THIS is a brief nonfiction work that expresses the writer's thoughts, feelings, and opinions on events and issues in his or her own life
- Personal Essay
- THIS is a word or group of words that completes the meaning of a verb
- Compliment
- What are some contrasting signal words?
- since, difference, now, nowadays, in those days, more, not so, much
- Expresses a statement of fact, wish, intent, or feeling, always ends with a period
- Declarative Sent.
- an adverb that identifies the degree of an adjective or another adverb
- intensifier
- examples of intensifiers?
- almost, extremely, just, more, most, nearly, only, quite, rather, really, so somewhat, too, truly, very
- Examples of correlative conjunctions?
- both..and, neither..nor, whether..or, either..or, not only..but also